MS Hyper-V Server 2008 VS VMware ESXi 3.5
Posted by admin on Dec 9, 2008
IBM Blades vs HP Blades
Posted by admin on Dec 8, 2008
If you have reached this page you are more probably already decided on using Blades, but still can’t solve the puzzle of HP Blades versus IBM Blades as they are the two main blades vendors and highly competing to win their share of the blades market. If so you are the the right place as you can find a very good comparison at IBM Blades versus HP Blades
In this post we are allowing you to discuss and comment on our IBM Blades versus HP Blades comparison posted at our site.
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 VS Xen Server Enterprise
Posted by admin on Dec 8, 2008
Ok, decided on riding the virtualization boat and confused on the right product for your company. Or you had already tried few virtualization products and trying to put a comparison between them. Our site definitely can help. In this post we are allowing you to discuss and comment on our Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 VS Xen Server Enterprise comparison posted at our site.
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Citrix Xen Server Enterprise VS VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3
Posted by admin on Dec 8, 2008
Ok, decided on riding the virtualization boat and confused on the right product for your company. Or you had already tried few virtualization products and trying to put a comparison between them. Our site definitely can help. In this post we are allowing you to discuss and comment on our Citrix Xen Server Enterprise VS VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 comparison posted at our site.
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Microsoft Windows Hyper-V VS VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5
Posted by admin on Dec 8, 2008
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 VS VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3
Posted by admin on Dec 8, 2008
Ok, decided on riding the virtualization boat and confused on the right product for your company. Or you had already tried few virtualization products and trying to put a comparison between them. Our site definitely can help. In this post we are allowing you to discuss and comment on our Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 VS VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 comparison posted at our site.
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Hyper-V Live Migration To Compete VMware VMotion
Posted by mrvirtualization on Sep 27, 2008
I have just came across a very interesting post at Virtualization Team Blog. They have claimed that Hyper-V Live Migration will be available soon. This is a lot sooner than expected by VMware & most people in the IT industry. They have even backed up their claims of video of the Hyper-V Live Migration Testing & the New Hyper-V Server. The Video can be found at Hyper-V Live Migration & Hyper V New Server Video.
I hope that would be of interest to many of you.
Mr. Virtualization
Can I place Google ads on the same page with third party ads?
Posted by seoyucki on Jul 8, 2008
I know this question has been floating on many websites & blogs lately. It has been even answered by zillion of people before. The same question as well has showed up in many different wording just few examples:
Can I mix Adsense & third party Ads on my site?
Can I run both of Adsense & bidvertiser, YPN, ClickSor or other third party ads on the same page?
Can I mix Adsense with bivertiser, YPN, ClickSor or other third party ads?
What is the condition to mix my Adsense Ads with Bidvertiser, YPN, ClickSor Ads?
These questions were answered in many different ways on some many websites & blogs. The bad part about it, 80% of the answers I were finding while searching about the answer were wrong. Yes, They were wrong.
Many people & even expert publisher still believe Adsense forbidden you from running another third party Ads campaign on the same page which contain Adsense Ads. Others believe it was forbidden to run third party context Ads on the same page which has google Ads. Both answers are incorrect. These believes have been established of Adsense older TOS. Adsense TOS has been changed to allow people to run any Ads campaign next to google adsense ads on the same page. The only condition to that is your third party Ads does not resemble google adsense Ads on your page. If you want to see this directly on google TOS look at this part of their TOS Found at Adsense TOS and copied as is below :
============Copied from Adsense TOS============
Competitive Ads and Services
In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colors as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads cannot be confused with Google ads.
=========End of Copied from Adsense TOS=========
Ok that part of the TOS still is not clear how much you have to do to avoid resembling Adsense Ads. After a long time of searching and e-mailing Adsense for the longest time, we had found out changing the coloring of your Third party Ads background or the full text to be different than your Adsense Ads is sufficient to avoid resembling it. Further more, it is a good idea to border your third party Ads or your Adsense Ads if placed very near of your Adsense Ads to distinguish the end of each. Why should you take my word on this. Well, b/c that what’s the adsense team had posted on their questions & Answers in regards of this policy at Adsense Ads mixing policy Questions & Answers. Exact copy of their answer is copied below.
=======Copied from Adsense Q&A======
Can I place Google ads on the same page with other ads?
You’re welcome to display Google ads on the same site or page as other third party advertisements provided that the formatting or colors of the third party ads is different enough from that of the Google ads. In other words, if you choose to place non-Google ads on the same site or page as Google ads, it should always be clear to the user that the ads are served by different advertising networks and that the non-Google ads have no association with Google. If the formats are naturally similar, we ask that you choose different color schemes for the competing ads.
Our intent with this policy is to be as fair to our advertisers as possible and to maintain the integrity of the AdWords and AdSense programs. You can learn more about this, and all our policies, on our program policies page.
======End of Copied from Adsense Q&A======
Did you wonder why I am posting this although its available on Adsense Q&A? If you did, its because I hoped people will find this correct answer before they hit zillion of pages with the wrong answer before they even find Adsense official answers. Believe it or not, many people has taken these wrong answers about mixing Adsense with other Ads campaign for granted. They either did not care that much, or did not have the time to investigate it that deep. Over all it took me about 3 hours of searching to hit the correct answers, which a lot of people would rather not to waste on that.
Although by now Adsense allow you to mix their ads with your third party Ads like YPN (Yahoo Publisher Network), Clicksor, All Feeds, Fast Click, Veoda, Bidvertiser, Chitika, Target Point , Revenue Pilot, ClickThruTraffic, & more affiliate as long you make sure it does not resemble your page Adsense Ads as explained above. It is still your responsibilty to check if these third parties allow you to mix them with Adsense. For most they do, but yahoo is the one main exception to this. YPN require to be exclusive on the site who use their Ads.
I hope this blog will help many of you in making more money of your website or blog. If so I don’t mind to accept your donations :P.
Enjoy,
Discovering Windows 2008 Official release.
Posted by themsguru on Jun 26, 2008
Hi Everyone,
I have just installed Windows 2008 today to evaluate it & Test it for future use in production. The version I decided to use is the Windows 2008 Enterprise 64-bit. I have the test running on IBM X3650 with a dual Core Single CPU & 2 GB of RAM, which was available in our test enviornment.
The first thing which surprised me is the installation process. It barely requested any information during the installation. The only questions I have seen during installation was the Product Key and If I agree to their License agreement. After the installation went on its own for 30 minutes before it finished (to be honest I went and had my lunch during that 30 mins so it might took a bit shorter). What I like of this comparing to earlier versions of Windows that Windows usually bug you with so many questions during installation, which if you are not running unattended installation you would have to be standing by the screen waiting for the next question (which most of it really can be changed & configured after installation). In windows 2008 all I had to do is answer the license Key and agree to the license and the installation went on its own (I believe Microsoft has heard for all the knocking about their earlier installation process).
After the Installation has been completed the Initial Configuration Tasks Panel has openned up. It looks just like the following image:
<the Initial Configuration Tasks Panel>
From this Panel I were able to install & Configure most of my desired options. I have started by fixing the network configuration (Including my IP & So on) from configuring network. I then have changed my computer name & joined it to our test enviorment domain using provide computer name & Domain. That was easy like a breaze. What I further noticed while testing my network connection, the IE included into Windows 2008 has Java by default. As I were able to browse websites which run Java applets which worked out of the box. Not the case with Windows 2003.
The next step was to setup our server as a webserver. So All I had to do is hit the add a role in the initial configuration Tasks Panel. Then check mark “web server (IIS)” and what was great & different than earlier version it had pointed the dependencies for me and asked me if it should install it. I believe this has been inspired of Linux distributions. The image below show just that.
<Windows 2008 adding IIS webserver role>
The next step for me which any webmaster will guess is to install the .net 3 framework. As IIS does not do much without it. To install it Instead of going to add/remove programs in earlier windows versions and look for it all I had to do is click “add features” from the initial configuration tasks then check mark “.net framwork 3.0 features” and as well choose to add the dependency required for it. The image below show just that.
<Installation .net framwork 3.0 features>
The next step was for me to enable remote desktop, which I have done by clicking “Enable Remote Desktop” from the Windows 2008 Initial Configuration Tasks Panel then check mark “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure)”. hmmm, yes I choose the less secure one in here as its only a test enviornment. Try to keep up with the secure one in production.
So the total process of Installation & Configuration of a new Windows 2008 webserver took me around 1 hour to do. I found the interfaces very familiar as its very similar to Windows 2003 as functionality and to Windows Vista as graphics. At the end I will leave you with an image of how Windows 2008 look like which could seems to you a Windows Vista for the first moment. I hope this introduction was useful.
<Windows 2008 Graphical interface>
Microsoft Windows Cluster Services For Windows 2003 & Windows 2008
Posted by themsguru on Jun 8, 2008
I thought its highly desirable to assemble a list of interesting links on the Microsoft Clustering services and often seek information regarding MS Clustering Services as they tend to hide when you need them the most.I hope these links will help you find out all the info you need about Microsoft Clustering Services. These links point to papers covering all versions of the MS Cluster Server (MSCS) Services.
For those who do not know what I am talking about, Cluster, is a service that offers “High Availability” to services. Ooops, not to be confused with Fault Tolerant, that is another entirely different concept. Raid 1array is a good example of Fault Tolerant, if a harddisk in Raid one Configuration break the system keep operating on the other one without any interruption. High Availability instead is a service that is responsible for giving the highest uptime of an application or service. In case the first node fail there will be a court of service but is minimal since it is the time it takes to initiate such application or service in a second server. Below is my Magical MS Cluster Services Information Links list
Server Clusters: Architecture Overview (Windows 2003)
Server Clusters: Rolling Upgrades (Windows 2003)
Server Clusters: Storage Area Networks (Windows 2000 and 2003)
MSCS Troubleshooting and Maintenance Guide (NT 4.0)
Troubleshooting Windows Server Clusters (Windows 2003)
Server Cluster Frequently Asked Questions (Windows 2003)
Server Clusters: Majority Node Set Quorum (Windows 2003)
Server Clusters: Geographically Dispersed Clusters (Windows 2003)
Quorums in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Clusters
Server Clusters: Cluster Configuration Best Practices (Windows 2003)
Server Clusters: Network Configuration Best Practices (Windows 2003)
Server Clusters: Storage Best Practices (Windows 2003)
Server Clusters: Backup and Recovery Best Practices (Windows 2003)
Server Clusters: Security Best Practices (Windows 2003)
Server Clusters: Quorum Options (Windows 2003)
How to turn on cluster logging in Microsoft Cluster Server
What’s New in Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2008 (Windows 2008)
Validating Hardware for a Failover Cluster in Windows Server 2008: Step-by-Step (Windows 2008)
Step-by-Step Guide for Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster in Windows Server 2008 (Windows 2008)
Step-by-Step Guide for Configuring a Two-Node Print Server Failover Cluster in Windows Server 2008 (Windows 2008)
Failover Cluster Quorum Configuration Step-by-Step Guide (Windows 2008)
Failover Clustering and Active Directory Configuration Step-by-Step Guide (Windows 2008)
Network Load Balancing Deployment Guide (Windows 2008)
Microsoft High Availability Strategy White Paper (Windows 2008)
Overview of Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008 (Windows 2008)
Quick Migration with Hyper-V (Windows 2008)
Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering Architecture Overview (Windows 2008)
WS2008 Failover Clustering Datasheet (Windows 2008)
WS2008 Multi Site Clustering (Windows 2008) Step-by-Step Guide for Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
Those links were based on documents and links to Technet with relevant information about the service or Cluster Failover Cluster depending on the version of Windows. Now I would like to make some links with tools or utilities that may serve to work with Microsoft Cluster service.
Cluster Server Recovery Utility (ClusterRecovery.exe) Cluster Diagnostics and Verification Tool (ClusDiag.exe)
Microsoft Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard (ClusPrep) Microsoft Product Support’s Reporting Tools (MPSReport) for Cluster
If a link does not work please leave me a comment so that I can solve the problem. I hope these links will be helpful for someone who wants to set up a Cluster or supporting it. I was served a lot by these links and would like to share it. If you have another good link and would like to share it please post it in the comment as well. Thanks